virtualtraveller

This country's legal system is indeed in need of reform for the third time in the history of present dynasty. For the sake of the whole country we should be applauding a judiciary that's getting tough on abusive leadership. Finally it's doing its job.

Poor old Thida, I feel sorry for her, her intelligence doesn't extend far enough to understand the word coup means tanks and guns used to seize power. Wondering how 7 judges can 'seize power'.

And when it's all over the courts should sue the UDD leadership for organising intimidation of the ruling.

Says the spokesman of a fugitive criminal. Every time he opens his mouth he fails to realise the irony.

Ko Tee is definitely one of the political firebrands/operators who needs to be locked up for a bit, along with Suthep and a few others. To suddenly make him fugitive number because of lese majeste is another case of absurd priorities. And the problem with a censorship law is that you cannot stop people speaking in metaphors, and if their message seems to insult someone dear, it's only because you heard it that way.

you can see through the ruse, owner keeps filling in at night, Mayor's been paid off and is pretending to do something, by the time there is a court order to stop, three quarters of the pond will be filled in which would have achieved his objective. Sneaky.

He won't return, the govt has made him a scapegoat and these LM charges never ever go away, just ask Jakrapob Penkair whose whereabouts are still unknown several years after doing a runner.

Same old defence 'we Thai cut each other a break, let's forgive and move on, let me win another election and have a second chance to screw it all up again and return the country to a democratic proxy rule'.

Meanwhile Prateep, whose possibly paid someone off to delay the arrest warrant, is already in Cambodia buying himself a nice piece of property… such is life in Thailand. Not difficult to recognise him, he will be wearing a turban.

Thaksin always modelled Thailand's ideal democracy on Singapore and Malaysia where one family or party rule indefinitely suing the opposition into bankruptcy or jailing opposition leaders for sodomy, so that you deconstruct a pluralist democracy. You get things done but you walk all over political freedoms. Singapore is not a very free country, Malaysia is a joke. Of course, Singapore is one of the least corrupt countries in the world so they can get away with it. But they have corrupted power. That's the issue here in Thailand.

Into the vacuum steps a civil war, to do so you need to prove to enough people that the courts are biased. This you can do to a few million Isarn folk, though funding it all would become expensive if the Shinawatra's money spigot is turned off now that they no longer have their paws on the national treasury. However, I believe most the country sits in the middle and can make their own judgments whether the entire system needs violently overthrowing.

These court rulings might be conveniently ruled to the letter of the law but they are not unrealistic. You cannot say truthfully that Yingluck is not a proxy of a fugitive criminal and that the appointment of Damapong was not at all nepotistic and that the rice scheme hasn't lost billions and needs auditing and disciplinary action taken. You cannot deny the amnesty bill process was cheated and can be described as self-serving side-stepping of the law, and you cannot say the 2 trillion baht loan isn't a diversion of the usual budgetary process. You cannot say that there was no flaw and deliberate cheating in the senate bill, nor that it wasn't a very fair bill because it's not based on election by proportional representation. Of course, no one on those red radio stations and stages will agree one iota with any of these aforementioned truths.

The courts might well be biased but their rulings are not unrealistic or absurd (except the cooking ruling on Samak granted).

Suthep needs to shut his mouth. He's handing the reds all the evidence they need to start a civil war. They've been waiting for a coup or neo-coup for ages. All the same, if he did pull a coup off the first favour he can do the country is arrest Tarit and detain him indefinitely.

Although police said it is too early to determine whether the attack on Ms. Patcharanan's car was politically motivated, other anti-government activists who had heckled former sister-in-law of Ms. Yingluck later experienced bomb attacks at their residence.

Priceless! Another theory is that it's all the work of the dastardly PDRC to give the angelic UDD a bad name.

Funny that, weren't Peua Thai always complaining the 2007 charter was no good, now they're complaining that someone might tear it up.

With a name like Prateep he's obviously Indian, perhaps one of the Thai-Sikh community. Looks like he might have run into financial difficult, pulled a fast one selling cheap tours at the fair, taken the cash and done a runner

So many misnomers. Democrat Party, Independent Agencies, People's Democratic Reform Committee. These groups ought to have more appropriate names that truly reflect their true nature. But that is a personal opinion.

Just like Peua Thai stands for 'for Thai' eh? Peua Thaksin is more appropriate, but that's my personal opinion.

What's he complaining about, if she goes, he becomes the next proxy prime minister, bully for him.

How about, if the courts don't remove the PDRC will violently protest. Same difference isn't.

The salient point, not made here, is that the election of senators is not very democratic. It's not proportional representation. 8 million people in Bangkok (the educated 8 million) get to choose 1 senator, the collective 8 million of the Northern provinces get to choose 20 senators. Most of them are allied to Thaksin. Not very democratic is it?

I find it far fetched that 60% of the scheme disappeared into corruption since this would mean the farmers would have ended up with no real gain, and they would've complained about that. What this article suggests is that the estimated figure of subsidy, 450 billion, has all disappeared. Lets assume that there was a pre-existing amount of corruption which is part and parcel of any transaction here, but on the flip side, if the govt's control of the money was thorough and the skimming done systematically, then where did all this money end up and even if half of it is now in a PT election slush fund, then 200 billion is a formidable amount. No wonder the Democrats are now refusing to contest elections. This has been grand larceny on the grandest scale!

Incredible, this is a caretaker govt, no guarantee they will win the next election or when it will be and they might be forced to quit within weeks anyway, they are fighting for their lives and yet they still carry on as if nothing's amiss, they're determined to get their hands on that money. The arrogance.

lets not forget, Saudi Arabia is hardly a paragon of justice, I'm sure they understand that, and similar trials in their country implicating officials might also collapse. But shame on Thailand and let them suffer strained relations with the Saudis for decades to come, this whole affair has been a disgrace to Thailand.